The Boston Summer Learning Project, a city-backed coalition of Hub summer school programs aimed at disadvantaged students, is doubling the number of enrollees and programs it offers this year, Mayor Martin J. Walsh will announce today.

The $2 million program, which starts today and runs for five weeks, sprouted from $600,000 in private seed money in 2010. This year, it will offer 6,574 Boston school children classes in 78 summer learning programs.

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